Monday, June 27

A thriving local tradition in Le Marche is making homemade liqueur using pure alcohol or grappa infused with fruits & herbs such as visner & visciolino (cherry), nocino (walnut vanilla), brugnolino (wild plum) & many more!

Visciole is a bitter wild cherry found in abundance in the Candigliano Valley of Northern Le Marche and its leaves make the most delicious & delicate after dinner cherry digestivoVisciolino when mixed with red wine, sugar & pure alcohol. The recipe below is simple & passed to me by our dear neighbor Mama Mochi, traditionally made at the end of May/early June.

This year I made over 5 liters of visciolino (wild cherry liqueur) as well as another five types of digestivi (after dinner drinks)!

Monday, June 13

Sailing along the Adriatic in a wooden yacht, just off the coast of Fano in Le Marche, with the smell of grilled fish in the air and a glass of crisp white Verdicchio is one of the best ways to enjoy Le Marche!

Our friend Danielle, a fabulous fish Chef has recently started offering day trips out to sea, with a swim in the Adriatic and a fresh fish lunch or dinner with wine, starting at 35 Euro/person. Achors up at 10am & back in time for a nap on the beach, evening trips start at 6pm & return after midnight. For a memorable day in Le Marche this is one of the best experiences you can have!

Wednesday, June 8

Deep in the countryside of Central Italy, locals & foreigners mix & mingle long into the night, devouring the best wood-fired pizza in the area, sharing stories & laughter over liters of wine as the faint sound of the accordion plays on in the background! Thursday's Pizza Night is always a memorable evening at La Tavola Marche (Organic Farm, Inn & Cooking School) and filmmaker Patrick Richardson Wright captured it perfectly!

Join us every Thursday at our Agriturismo/Farmhouse as we fire up the outdoor wood burning oven, dine al'fresco family-style in the garden & enjoy handmade pizzas, salad from our garden, dessert & a quarter litre of wine for 15 Euro per person.

Are you a pizzaiolo at heart? Try our famous hands-on pizza class (featured in Food & Wine) and learn the secrets of making pizza from scratch, rolling & tossing your dough and collecting fresh ingredients for the toppings & sauce straight from our organic garden! Then master the art of firing your pizza in the outdoor wood burning oven!

Sunday, June 5

We are excited to announce that our agriturismo has just gone green-er by installing solar heat exchange with panels on the roof, not only heating our water but radiators as well. This will greatly cut down on our CO2 emissions and another step in becoming self-sufficient.

At La Tavola Marche, we utilize the crops grown on the property & in our organic farm, raise free-range chickens, compost, recycle, and use natural mineral water from our sulphur spring for drinking, bathing, gardening & in the swimming pool. We try to leave as small of an eco-footprint as possible.

During the spring, summer & into fall we will not have to use any gas to heat our water, the solar panels will do all the work. On a sunny day the solar panels can heat to almost boiling water!

In the winter months it will aid in warming the water as it enters the pipes, saving energy by not starting with ice cold water to heat.

Plus, the new system recycles the exhaust gases, burning up to 98% of the gas, whereas before only 60% was being burned & the rest would wasted, blowing out the exhaust pipe.

Incredibly, the whole project was right on schedule & took only 4 days to install with very little interruption in water. Plus all the time it will save, now Jason doesn't have to fiddle with heating system constantly checking the levels & making sure it is working properly.